On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:46:27PM +0200, Tuomas Lukinmaa wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> > No such thing as a temporary 404.
> 
> No, there isn't, but 404 does not define whether the situation is 
> temporary or permanent. It is suitable for use in timeout situations.
> 
> "No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or 
> permanent. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server 
> knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old 
> resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address."
> 
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.5
> 
> > The latter would be useful but need to be handled with
> > care to avoid DoS...
> 
> Umm, FProxy/Fred has DoS issues? Perhaps they should be fixed so that 
> such novelty (and more user friendly) features as backgrounding 
> transfers would not break them?
If each transfer starts ten more transfers, this is a DoS. This is why
we have to be careful implementing things like prefetch hints.

-- 
Matthew Toseland
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amphibian at users.sourceforge.net
Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker.
Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/1/03
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